Thom Brooks is Professor of Law and Government at Durham University. He is the author of Punishment and founding editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy. He has edited several collections, including The Legacy of John Rawls and The Global Justice Reader.Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Her principal appointments are in the Philosophy Department and the Law School. Her books include Frontiers of Justice, Creating Capabilities, Political Emotions, and the forthcoming Anger and Forgiveness.
66 Ebooks by Martha C. Nussbaum
Thom Brooks & Martha C. Nussbaum: Rawls’s Political Liberalism
Widely hailed as one of the most significant works in modern political philosophy, John Rawls’s Political Liberalism (1993) defended a powerful vision of society that respects reasonable ways of life …
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Martha C. Nussbaum: Extending Political Liberalism
Widely hailed as one of the most significant works in modern political philosophy, John Rawls’s Political Liberalism (1993) defended a powerful vision of society that respects reasonable ways of life …
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€1.99
Jeffrey Israel: Living with Hate in American Politics and Religion
In the United States, people are deeply divided along lines of race, class, political party, gender, sexuality, and religion. Many believe that historical grievances must eventually be left behind in …
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€25.99
Judith Jarvis Thomson: Goodness and Advice
How should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In doin …
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Martha C. Nussbaum: Hiding from Humanity
Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This p …
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Abbott Gleason & Jack Goldsmith: On Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is among the most widely read books in the world. For more than 50 years, it has been regarded as a morality tale for the possible future of modern society, a fut …
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Martha C. Nussbaum: The Therapy of Desire
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this class …
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Susan Moller Okin: Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, unequal rights of ownership, assembly, and p …
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€34.99
Martha C. Nussbaum: Not for Profit
A passionate defense of the humanities from one of today’s foremost public intellectuals In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the import …
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€18.99
Martha C. Nussbaum: Politische Emotionen
Wie viel Gefühl verträgt eine Gesellschaft, die nach Gerechtigkeit strebt? Nicht viel, könnte man meinen und auf die Gefahren politischer Instrumentalisierung von Ängsten und Ressentiments verweisen. …
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Martha C. Nussbaum: Die Grenzen der Gerechtigkeit
Wie steht es um die Bürgerrechte jener, die körperlich oder geistig behindert sind? Wie lassen sich gerechte und menschenwürdige Bedingungen über nationale Grenzen hinweg durchsetzen? Und: Auf welche …
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€29.99
Saul Levmore & Martha C. Nussbaum: Aging Thoughtfully
We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights. The conversations, or paired essays, in Aging Thoughtfully combine a philosopher’s approach with a lawyer-economist’s. H …
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Saul Levmore & Martha C. Nussbaum: Aging Thoughtfully
We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights. The conversations, or paired essays, in Aging Thoughtfully combine a philosopher’s approach with a lawyer-economist’s. H …
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€14.17
Alison L. LaCroix & Richard H. McAdams: Fatal Fictions
Writers of fiction have always confronted topics of crime and punishment. This age-old fascination with crime on the part of both authors and readers is not surprising, given that criminal justice to …
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€86.86
Alison L. LaCroix & Richard H. McAdams: Fatal Fictions
Writers of fiction have always confronted topics of crime and punishment. This age-old fascination with crime on the part of both authors and readers is not surprising, given that criminal justice to …
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€68.62
Alison LaCroix & Saul Levmore: Power, Prose, and Purse
From Anthony Trollop to Sinclair Lewis, and from Jane Austen to James Joyce and John Steinbeck, many important novels touch on fundamental questions about the role of money in human affairs. These qu …
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€72.01
Alison LaCroix & Saul Levmore: Power, Prose, and Purse
From Anthony Trollop to Sinclair Lewis, and from Jane Austen to James Joyce and John Steinbeck, many important novels touch on fundamental questions about the role of money in human affairs. These qu …
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€56.84
Martha C. Nussbaum & Amelie Oksenberg Rorty: Essays on Aristotle’s De Anima
Aristotle’s philosophy of mind has recently attracted renewed attention and respect from philosophers. This volume brings together outstanding new essays on De Anima by a distinguished international …
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€65.53
Jonathan Glover & Martha C. Nussbaum: Women, Culture, and Development
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open …
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€3.82
Martha C. Nussbaum: Monarchy of Fear
From one of the world’s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend a divided country. For decades Martha C. Nu …
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€13.90
Martha C. Nussbaum: Monarchy of Fear
From one of the world’s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend a divided country. For decades Martha C. Nu …
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€13.79
David M. Estlund & Martha C. Nussbaum: Sex, Preference, and Family
The public furor over issues of same sex marriages, gay rights, pornography, and single-parent families has erupted with a passion not seen since the 1960s. This book gathers seventeen eminent philos …
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€56.32
Martha C. Nussbaum: Sex and Social Justice
What does it mean to respect the dignity of a human being? What sort of support do human capacities demand from the world, and how should we think about this support when we encounter differences of …
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€51.32
Martha C. Nussbaum & Cass R. Sunstein: Animal Rights
Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addr …
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€25.67
Zoya Hasan & Aziz Z. Huq: Empire of Disgust
All known societies exclude one or more minority groups, frequently employing a rhetoric of disgust to justify stigmatization. For instance, in European anti-Semitism, Jews were considered hyper-phys …
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€46.49
Saul Levmore & Martha C. Nussbaum: American Guy
American Guy examines American norms of masculinity and their role in the law, bringing a range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives to the intersection of American gender, legal, and lite …
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€93.29
Martha C. Nussbaum: Anger and Forgiveness
Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to …
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€14.20
Martha C. Nussbaum: Anger and Forgiveness
Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to …
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€14.01
Wendy Doniger & Martha C. Nussbaum: Pluralism and Democracy in India
Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world’s most populous democracy survive repeated assault …
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€35.30
Wendy Doniger & Martha C. Nussbaum: Pluralism and Democracy in India
Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world’s most populous democracy survive repeated assault …
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€34.23
Martha C. Nussbaum: From Disgust to Humanity
A distinguished professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago, a prolific writer and award-winning thinker, Martha Nussbaum stands as one of our foremost authorities on law, justice, f …
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€20.61
Martha C. Nussbaum: Love’s Knowledge
This volume brings together Nussbaum’s published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-spe …
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€54.70
Martha C. Nussbaum: Philosophical Interventions
This volume collects the notable published book reviews of Martha C. Nussbaum, an acclaimed philosopher who is also a professor of law and a public intellectual. Her academic work focuses on question …
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€43.87
Alison L. LaCroix & Martha C. Nussbaum: Subversion and Sympathy
This interdisciplinary volume of contributed essays focuses on issues of gender in the British novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly Hardy and Trollope. Approaching the topic …
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€77.35
Martha C. Nussbaum: Love’s Knowledge
This volume brings together Nussbaum’s published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-spe …
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€42.13
Martha C. Nussbaum: Sex and Social Justice
What does it mean to respect the dignity of a human being? What sort of support do human capacities demand from the world, and how should we think about this support when we encounter differences of …
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€39.98
Martha C. Nussbaum & Cass R. Sunstein: Animal Rights
Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addr …
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€25.53
Martha C. Nussbaum: Philosophical Interventions
This volume collects the notable published book reviews of Martha C. Nussbaum, an acclaimed philosopher who is also a professor of law and a public intellectual. Her academic work focuses on question …
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€34.27
Martha C. Nussbaum: Political Emotions
Martha Nussbaum asks: How can we sustain a decent society that aspires to justice and inspires sacrifice for the common good? Amid negative emotions endemic even to good societies, public emotions ro …
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€32.25
Martha C. Nussbaum: Cultivating Humanity
How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classic …
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€28.17
Martha C. Nussbaum: Monarchy of Fear
From one of the world’s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country.For decades Martha C. N …
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€16.42
Nussbaum Martha C. Nussbaum: Cosmopolitan Tradition
"Profound, beautifully written, and inspiring. It proves that Nussbaum deserves her reputation as one of the greatest modern philosophers."-Globe and Mail"At a time of growing national …
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€27.02
Martha C. Nussbaum: La ira y el perdón
La presente obra analiza filosóficamente una de las emociones humanas más perniciosas y contingentes: la ira. Desde la Antigüedad ésta ha sido objeto de grandes debates, y Martha Nussbaum se vale de …
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Martha C. Nussbaum: Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium
Available for the first time in paperback, this volume contains text with translation of De Motu Animalium, Aristotle’s attempt to lay the groundwork for a general theory of the explanation of animal …
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Martha C. Nussbaum: El conocimiento del amor
Martha C. Nussbaum toma como punto de partida la filosofía de Aristóteles para establecer la pertinencia de la lectura y estudio de las obras literarias al abordar los problemas éticos. Si los textos …
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Martha C. Nussbaum: La fragilidad del bien
La fragilidad del bien es su obra más celebrada y marca ya un hito en los estudios clásicos y en el análisis de la relación entre la ética, la tragedia y la filosofía griegas. En este ámbito, Martha …
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Martha C. Nussbaum: Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation
A groundbreaking exploration of sexual violence by one of our most celebrated experts in law and philosophy. In this essential philosophical and practical reckoning, Martha C. Nussbaum, renowned for …
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Alison L. LaCroix & Jonathan S. Masur: Cannons and Codes
It can be said that western literature begins with a war story, the Iliad; and that this is true too of many non-Western literary traditions, such as the Mahabharata. And yet, though a profoundly hum …
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Alison L. LaCroix & Jonathan S. Masur: Cannons and Codes
It can be said that western literature begins with a war story, the Iliad; and that this is true too of many non-Western literary traditions, such as the Mahabharata. And yet, though a profoundly hum …
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€65.43
Martha C. Nussbaum: Justice for Animals
A ‘;brilliant’ (Chicago Review of Books), ‘;elegantly written, and compelling’ (National Review) new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C …
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Martha C. Nussbaum: Clash Within
While America is focused on religious militancy and terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremism in another critical part of the world. As Martha Nussbaum rev …
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Nussbaum Martha C. Nussbaum: Frontiers of Justice
Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, addressing the world and its problems, must r …
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€38.53
Saul Levmore & Martha C. Nussbaum: Offensive Internet
The Internet has been romanticized as a zone of freedom. The alluring combination of sophisticated technology with low barriers to entry and instantaneous outreach to millions of users has mesmerized …
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Martha C. Nussbaum: Not for Profit
A passionate defense of the humanities from one of today’s foremost public intellectuals In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the imp …
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€19.99
Scott A. Anderson & Martha C. Nussbaum: Confronting Torture
Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone seems to be an un …
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€48.89
Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Anger, Mercy, Revenge
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius A …
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€43.82
Martha C. Nussbaum & Juha Sihvola: Sleep of Reason
Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of ancient Greece and Rome. But until recently there has been little discussion of their views on erotic experien …
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